Screw putting a total sugar label on soft drinks – TAX THEM!
…big sugar are just like big tobacco and big oil. They know their product kills but they have all done everything they can to hide that truth.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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…meanwhile, the planet melts
The biggest story of 2017 was the sudden release of research all year alongside freak weather events that pointed out that catastrophic climate change can occur far faster than was ever thought possible.
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The only shock about National’s stalling tactics is that people are shocked
Winning against National is one thing, governing over them while the mainstream media is totally hostile towards you is another and at this stage it doesn’t seem the Labour Party, Greens or NZ First have the behind the scenes think tank who can game play these scenarios out well enough to not get tripped up.
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Why Black Friday is the perfect mutation of the First Thanksgiving Colonialism
Black Friday is the shopping day after Thanksgiving in America where stores drop prices to ridiculously low levels causing ugly scenes of violence outside department stores as desperate people shove and stampede past each other in an orgy of consumerism that makes one sad and repelled in equal measure.
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Elites strike new Government with fear of recession, Liam Dann’s prozac and the PSA is grumpy with new Tax Group
Michael Cullen’s appointment on the tax working group has the PSA screaming, but it misses why he’s been appointed.
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$50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Labour should be embarrassed by this meaningless policy.
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Is it time to end big Dairy in New Zealand?
…should we start asking is it time to end big Dairy in NZ?
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Labour poach Vernon Small & Alex Tarrant as Press Secretaries
At a time when their communications strategies are desperately falling apart, picking up two of the heavyweights of the Journalist world is a bloody smart move.
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Genter, Little & Twyford follow Jacinda’s leadership – so why am I still nervous about new Government?
Julie Anne Genter, Andrew Little and Phil Twyford have followed Jacinda’s political leadership over Manus Island and have each challenged the status quo and demanded more.
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So white people in NZ are the real bludgers?
Poverty impacts everyone and state aid is a necessity, not an enabler. The sooner white NZ starts understanding that bludger stereotypes undermine us all, the sooner we can start making real progress towards combating poverty.